“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins
― Richard Dawkins
Favorite quotes from literature.
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“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins
"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." Probably my favorite poem of all time - along with Kipling's "if"
I love me some Poe:
Opening paragraphs of The Cask of Amontillado Quote:The thousand injuries of Fortunado I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult I vowed
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
"Harry locked his mother in the closet."
__________Hubert Selby, Jr., Requiem For a Dream Interesting thing: my mother was a huge fan of Jane Austen and liked putting Jane Austen Quotes on everything. In retaliation, I attempted to put a copy of this sentence on the door of the linen closet. She was not amused. Nevermind the fact that the linen closet not only has no lock, but it's too small for anyone to fit in, much less my mother. “It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.” _________________Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
'All kings is mostly rapscallions.'
Quote:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain And James Joyce can suck it. There has been a Jewish community (a small one, to be sure) in Ireland for over a thousand years. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(September 21, 2013 at 10:09 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There has been a Jewish community (a small one, to be sure) in Ireland for over a thousand years. Of course. Wherever there are people, there are Jews. So Saith Michael Chabon. I'm pretty sure it's from the Yiddish Policeman's Union, but I'm not sure.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad. (September 21, 2013 at 9:23 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: "Harry locked his mother in the closet." That's a shame; that would be kind of hilarious, especially if your name is Harry.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
(September 22, 2013 at 8:30 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: That's a shame; that would be kind of hilarious, especially if your name is Harry. And it's not.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad. Quote:... I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less. I compare her to one of those raging rivers, which when in flood overflows the plains, sweeping away trees and buildings, bearing away the soil from place to place; everything flies before it, all yield to its violence, without being able in any way to withstand it; and yet, though its nature be such, it does not follow therefore that men, when the weather becomes fair, shall not make provision, both with defences and barriers, in such a manner that, rising again, the waters may pass away by canal, and their force be neither so unrestrained nor so dangerous. So it happens with fortune, who shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her. -Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Dr. Warren Vidic: Anyone can write a book and they can put whatever they want on its pages. Anything. Used to be we thought the world was flat.
Assasins creed
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. |
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